Weird cases: the devil made me do it

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‘Satan and his staff’ have been accused and used in several defence arguments - with varying degrees of success

By common agreement, the Devil makes relatively few trips to Oxford. He
visited recently, however, to cause trouble with sheep heads, according to
Qasim Ali, a defendant at Oxford magistrates’ court.

Mr Ali was being prosecuted under the Environmental Protection Act 1990 for
making an unauthorised waste deposit by the roadside. Among the bags which
he had illegally flytipped was one containing a number of rotting sheep
heads.

Mr Ali, the manager of the Oxford Food Centre in Headington, claimed that he
dumped the bags containing the sheep heads because “the devil had got inside
of me”.

He said that

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